Suzanne's 3-2-1

3 Big Ideas- Language comprehension is the most important skill we need to succeed in school and life.
Processing language is a cognitive act and instruction must be based on a theory of cognition.
Sensory-coginitive functions of mental imagery is related to competency in language and literacy skills.

2- Billions are spent on students with disabilities and 80 to 90% are in Special Education because they can't read.

She is against whole language but then Global Read and orthographic (sight word focus) seems like just memorizing like reading Dick and Jane books.

1- How do you increase phonetic processing taht is too slow, or symbol imagery that is too weak?